ATLANTA -- How safe is your child's school? 11Alive's Center for Investigative Actiondug through fire inspection reports to get the answer. We found schools in Metro Atlanta need to do a better job eliminating fire hazards.

We spent several weeks examining two years of fire inspection reports for 329 elementary schools and discovered the majority of elementary schools have been failing to get it right.

Every school is inspected at least once a year and if violations are found they are revisited to make sure that problems have been corrected. Often times the violations are corrected the same day.

During the last round of inspections here's what we found. In Gwinnett County, 92 percent of elementary schools had fire code violations, 85 percent in Cobb, 68 percent in Fulton, 35 percent of Atlanta Elementary Schools failed to get a violation free report, as did 10 percent of DeKalb County Schools.

"You have to follow up," Chief Yoder explained.

The local fire departments work closely with the schools to conduct training and to educate staff about fire code standards. However, there is a lot to consider, which is why every year the schools are inspected and sometimes revisited multiple times until they get it right.